Leaf storm
By: Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Penguin; Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780141032566
Subjects: Macondo (Imaginary place); Translations into English; Fiction
Work titles: Hojarasca
Description: The Banana Company arrived in the town of Macondo like a whirlwind and along with it warehouses, amusement parlours and slums have descended. The people who live there reel at the stench of rubbish that makes their own homes unrecognisable. Then when the banana company leaves town just as fast as it arrived, they find themselves left with a void of decay. But living among the devastation is one last honourable man, the Colonel, who's determined to fulfil his lifelong promise, no matter how distasteful it may be. With the death of the detested Doctor, he must provide an honourable burial - and at the same time incur the wrath of the people of Macondo, who would much rather see the Doctor rot, forgotten and unattended.
Notes: This translation originally published: as part of Leaf storm and other stories. New York: Harper & Row; London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.

Translated from the Spanish.